Wildflower Triathlon - Long Course - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

The swim sucked. My warm up wasn't enough and I wasn't breathing enough went from breathing every third stroke to every other stroke and that made a huge difference.

Try to warmup a lot more and time it to within a minute or two of my start.

My shoes wouldn't stay velcroed shut. Bike computer wasn't reading speed as I was running out of T1, stopped to adjust it twice.

I need to get newer shoes for racing in. The velcro on my current shoes is toast.

Good day on the bike. I threw my chain at about mile four, lost maybe 15 seconde there. Tried to eat and drink as much as I could without feeling bogged down. Felt like I was going either 30-40mph or 5 mph, with all the ups and downs. Course never really felt flat.

MAybe push the hills a little harder. Try not to relax so much on the flats, I think I could of got an extra mile or two per hour on some of the longer flats, and down hills.

Good transition. Left sock was a little slow but everything else went really good.

Ran purely off of heart rate and effort. Never really looked at split times. Ran my race and kept it fairly conservative for the first four miles.

Ate everything I could get my hands on. Tried to walk around as much as possible.


Crappy swim, dropping my chain.


Great well put together race. Getting down to transition is a pain in the butt. The race is well supported with tons of aid stations and really good volunteers.